Star on the Run ... clocked traveling at 1.6 million miles an hour

Star on the Run

Summary - (Nov 9, 2005) Astronomers have discovered a massive star
moving extremely quickly through the outer halo of the Milky Way, and
into intergalactic space. The star, named HE 0437-5439, was discovered
as part of the Hamburg/ESO sky survey, and was clocked traveling at 723
km/s, or 2.6 million kilometres per hour (1.6 million miles an hour).
It's possible that the star was accelerated when it came too close to a
supermassive black hole in the centre of the Large Magellanic Cloud.

See
http://www.universetoday.com/am/publ...n_the_run.html

Ra♥ï�g L♂♀♫iε wrote:
Star on the Run

Summary - (Nov 9, 2005) Astronomers have discovered a massive star
moving extremely quickly through the outer halo of the Milky Way, and
into intergalactic space. The star, named HE 0437-5439, was discovered
as part of the Hamburg/ESO sky survey, and was clocked traveling at 723
km/s, or 2.6 million kilometres per hour (1.6 million miles an hour).
It's possible that the star was accelerated when it came too close to a
supermassive black hole in the centre of the Large Magellanic Cloud.

See
http://www.universetoday.com/am/publ...n_the_run.html
Artist illustration of a star ejected from the Large Magellanic Cloud.
Image credit: ESO
See http://www.universetoday.com/am/uplo...09lmc-full.jpg.

Another fabulous ESO comissioned artist's impression ...

BTW, is that a diamond pulsed supersonic exhaust that I see powering
that 'sucker' like a bat out of Hell?

RL